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This research report focuses on twenty case studies of successful cooperatives on the African continent. It also includes case studies on two successful cooperative colleges on the continent.
Over the past ten years cooperative development and movement building has happened under a cloud of policy uncertainty. Beyond the rhetoric of cooperative support, cooperatives emerging in poor communities have failed in many places due to the absence of state responsiveness or inappropriate state support and the lack of leadership from within the cooperative movement.
The Co-operative and Policy Alternative Center (COPAC) conducted this survey in an attempt to develop a better understanding of the support environment, institutional capacity and practices of co-operatives and the co-operative movement in Gauteng Province. COPAC has worked to build co-operatives in Gauteng for the past six years.